Goddess of the
Air and Space, and
Also known as the
creator of the world

The legende tells
she was a very
mighty Goddess,
whispers told she
was the queen of the
Universe. The elders
has been telling
around about her
very painful story.

as
one day when she
desided to step down
from her heavenly
realm what they said
was a huge sea that
filled each and
every place.

Ilmatar wasn't alone
thought, she had
carried her baby in
her womd for 700
years and she
anxiously was
expecting it to be
born any moment now.
She was tortured by
pain and aches in
every cell of her
body, but still
nothing happened.
even if It was time
for the birth.

She felt down in the
middle of her vast
sea and was
heartbrokenly
crying, totally
dissorientated, and
without a clue of
what she had to do.

Suddely there were a
Seagull flying
towards her, she
landed on her knee
what were over the
sea, and begin to
build a nest right
there. Ilmatar was
stunned and she
couldn't understand
what was happening.
She look at the
beautiful bird with
admiration, and
realize she had laid
one egg in the nest.

After awhile,
Ilmatar felt a
painful burning at
her knee coming from
the newly laid egg.
She got awfull pains
at her knee and she
couldn't bare it and
shake her leg
resulting into that
the egg felt into
the sea.

The
egg broke in two
pieces, of which the
lo´wer part created
the Earth, and the
upper part created
the sky. The yolk of
the egg became the
Sun, and with the
eggwhite she created
the Moon and the
Stars.

Sometimes Ilmatar
stepped hard on the
ground, it was then
when the deep seas
was born. Sometimes
she stretched out
her arms in front
and with that
movements she
created fields and
mountains.

After
some time, she
started to give
birth to a child,
what was not at all
a normal, average
nor helpless human
child. Not at all,
he was Vainamoinen,
The root of Finland,
the very first human
upon the Earth.

He was the one who
kept guard in the
Earthly garden, so
all plants got a
good growth,
and the life with
creatures as animals
and humans could had
a good start, as it
should. Ilmatar was
happy and she could
peacefully leave all
the creating to
vainamoinen.